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To: Texas Fossil

In 1978 I was taught how to do the monthly reset on the American version of the Enigma machine while at COMSUBLANT. At that time it was the ‘back up’ to the systems using IBM ‘encryption’ cards and those card readers.


5 posted on 02/19/2009 2:05:10 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: Badeye

I was told we kept the mechanical encripters a long time. Because the keyboards of the electronic version emitted plain text and was suspect on security.

Of course in today’s world it is all micro-burst spread spectrum.


7 posted on 02/19/2009 7:14:00 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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